Are you one of the thousands of Irish people being targeted by scam calls over the last number of weeks? You may be wondering how or where did the scammers get your number, what do they want and can you make it stop?

Newstalk’s Technology Correspondent, Jess Kelly joined Kieran to discuss why this is happening...

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